"lets just talk about the marginalized and write essays on them"
"or! we can send a cheque to some overseas project in that country off in that land... i forget the name of it. you know? the one that's hard to pronounce near the war torn country? yeah... just send a cheque. i gotta run over to costco in my SUV just to pick up some things... we have no food in the fridge and i'm starving."
"i would totally go and help those homeless people but they smell and are probably on drugs and might steal my purse"
"oh no! that baby crawling through the intersection is going to get hit by a car! it's a good thing w are on the sidewalk right in front of the baby and God opened our eyes to see this!... we can PRAY for that baby and ask God to bring someone to save the baby from getting hit by a car! let's hold hands and be UNITED on this"
"well, he doesn't deserve to be treated nicely"
EUGH. God may you open our eyes to our hypocricy.
Have you ever thought about how many grocery stores there are in your neighbourhood? ever notice when you walk through the aisles... the produce department especially... just how many different places in the world the food comes from?
and what happens with the bruised fruits and vegetables? or the meat that doesn't get purchased? or the milk that passes it's best before date before being sold?
and then think about all of the countries in the world you hear about in those incredibly depressing infomercials... "for just 40 cents a day, little Ming can eat a bowl of soup, a cup of rice, have clean running water for her and her 13 siblings, and attend school..."
what the frig?! how are entire countries left in poverty... and the people who live there can't afford to buy the food they produce... but we have stores FULL of THEIR food and tons of it goes bad before anyone gets to eat it!?
this is wrong. it's all wrong. we need to become the answers to our prayers.
ISAIAH 58. come on God! help us do this! we are SO not focusing on the things that matter! and we are overlooking the things we are doing that oppress our neighbours! we need you to save us. we're messeddddd upppppp
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I have to ask (and I'm not being facetious in doing so): do you think Christ was a Marxist?
nope. Christ was, and is, and will be... God. total different category
Nono, that Jesus talked about helping the poor or the least amongst us has a ring of Marxist class relations. "Blessed are the meek who shall inherit the earth" is basically saying "proletariats of the world unite!" Even though the world as the dominion of humanity (re: Genesis) has been used in the justification of capitalism and exploitation. I suppose also that the hierarchical relations of Christ and God (Christ as God) and humanity, however, is ultimately aristocratic, not to mention gendered more or less exclusively male.
Democracy (and to be fair, Aristotle never spoke fondly of democracy, but rather its opposite, the truly beneficial form of popular political movement, polity) both in the spiritual and political realms would then have to speak to the experience of the material (or the material as immaterial) without relying on the transcendental nature of belief or rhetoric, both of which through application become hubris. The lateral connections made between people, one another, rather than a vertical relation, I think Christ *was* speaking to (or could be interpreted that way... I would read it as such) and the exegetic elements more a matter of metaphor and symbolism than fact.
Marx-->Adorno and Horkheimer-->Deleuze(-->Jesus?)
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